Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-24
THE CITY.
THAT BOYCOTT AGAIN.
Tho Managers of the Evening Mail and
tho stock Journal Make a Statement.

permit us to state few facts about the
trouble between the papers under our
management and the Printers Uzion.
The writer of the article referred to
above failed to give the public the true
inwardness of the whole trouble with the
Evening Mail and the Steck Journal, not
withstanding at the outset he promised
to do so. And for peryersion of facts in
that article he is entitled TO the "whOle
bakery"
There never was any tr3able between
the present management of the Mail and
the Printers Union about Asing plate
NATTER yet he says there is where the
trouble began. The trouble between tie
union and the Evening Mail was on
account of the change from union men to
non-union men, aud that change was
made purely on the score of necessary
economy in conducting the business. The
undersigned, who purchased for others
the Evening Mail when it was sold out
for deDt, conceived the idea that 1t woulL
be good plan to induce some friends
with money 10 acquire the Evening Msil
plsnt and conduct III evening newspaper
in the interest of the people of Fort Worth
particularly and the stockholders re-
motley.
When the present management took
charge of the business the pay roll for
the first week in the composing room
amounted Sl5+ 90, for the first week in
September, and the balance of expenses
were IN proportion. From time to time
tie wages of the business and editorial
forces were cut down from SO 90 per day
to 81 90 per day. The typographical force
WAS from time to time reduced in num-
Ders until the force was barely sufficient
to get out the paper and in this way the
payroll reduced from $l34.S0 for the
first week in September 10 $500 per
week in January. In spite of these re-
auctions, the paper was still running ut 3
loss, and the manager took this course
only to make the paper pay expenses dur
ing the hard times.
The typographical force were addressed
communication which speaks for itself
and is filed with the union, and we trust
the union viii see proper to publish it..
The substance of the communication was,
that the manager asked the typographical
force to permit reduction OF wages to
correspond with the wages OF the re-
mainder Of the employees, so that the pa-
per would not run at loss, romising to
restore the wages, and make good the
loss that the force would sustain by such
reduction whenever the paper could al
ford to do so.
This. Mr.. Editor, is the extent of the
Mails otfense, and for this reason GER
tain printers have constituted themselves
q committee to solicit the Mails adver-
tisers to assist in boycotting the paper
bty, Il yuip no: mo- fro
All that the Mail desires, is that the
Typographical Union will permit it to
run its own business in its own way. In
der the present management the Mail is
enabled 10 get out the paper for much
less than the price offered the union
force, who were at work on the paper IN
til they quit of their own free will and
accord.
In the article signed "Printers" it is
said "The committee waited on these
gentlemen, and suggestion alter sugges-
ton was made. The committee could not
get the proprletors to consent to anything
except IS! per cent. reduction, and
with no promise II that was accepted that
the price would be raised when business
revived
These are not the facts in the case.
On the contrary, the committee informed
the undersigned that they could not make
q reduction CT l cent a day,
giving as reason that if any
reduction was made to the Mail similar
reduction would have to be made to THE
GAZETTE ana the Fort Worth Printing
House. Tie reduction" was not de-
manded, and "lockout" was not spoken
of; on the contrary, It was understood
the Mail merely requested q REDUCTION !;
and when the committee informed the re-
representatives. of the Mail that q reduction
could not be granted, it was sgreed that
the union printers should work on at the
rate of So per day until their places could
be supplied by others. Neither the Stock
Journal nor the Mail propose to champion
q "cheap labor SYSTEM" as charged. On
the contrary, the Stock journal, as it al
ways did, pays the union scale. and the
Mail will do the same when its business
will justify it, and its force of printers
will have their wages raised before the
others of its employees interests are con-
sidered.
Neither the Stock journal nor the Mail
has any fight to make against the Typo
graphical Union, nor the better class of
men in the union, who, unfortunately, we
are led to believe are IN the minority, but
we reserve the right to manage the bust
ness of the Stock Journal and the Mail in
the interests Of the stockholders, as long
as it is the will of the stockholders that
We remain the managers. In the mean
time the Stock Journal and the Mail will
continue to work for the interests of the
public generally and for the interests of
Fort Worth in particular. Respectfully,
w. A. GARNER,
JNo. 0 FORD.
A STATEMENT FROM THE STOCK JOURNAL.
Two years ago the Stock Journal was
what is called union office, and en-
ployed a union foreman, whose business
it was to work for the interests of the
psper, but who instead OF so doing, reg-
lected the interests of the office, and
generally gave unsatisfactory returns for
the wages paid him. The management
of the Stock Journal decided to discharge
the foreman for these sufficient reasons,
when they were waited upon by q COM
mittee of three from the Printers Union
with the proposition th.t the union sup
ply the Stock journal Office with union
foreman of their own selection, other
wise, the printers were ms ructed to
"walk out" Suffice to say, that they
"walked out" Since that time the Stock
Journal has been q nOn-union office. At
| the time this "Walk out" occurred,
the management of the Stock Journal